Sandi Thom again
Monday, June 12th 2006
See it's not just me
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The Perry Bible Fellowship
Tuesday, June 6th 2006
Go read The Perry Bible Fellowship. The site is a pain to navigate but it's the best strip comic I have seen in a very long time.
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Dark Materials > The Half-Blood Prince
Monday, September 5th 2005
Rereading Philip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy it really brought home how one dimensional and unimaginative the last Harry Potter book was. It really is a fantastic trilogy of books and the end of book two ('The Subtle Knife') should be read in private and not on a train so as to hide your tears.
Much of my thoughts on Potter 6 are stated much more eloquently than I ever could by Glenn Mcdonald (who used to write The War Against Silence) here
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If companies sponsored album covers
Monday, June 27th 2005
The ILM massive seem to have outdone themselves this weekend. Check out this thread for all sorts of goodness.
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The Boo Radleys
Friday, June 24th 2005
It's fair to say that The Boo Radleys are one of my favourite bands and it's great that they are getting the 2CD Anthology treatment (out July 4th pop fans). There's an official website gone up here and if you want to read the excellent site about their best album (and one of the best albums of the 90's) then go here.
No doubt I'll have more to say on them in the future.
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See What I Mean About Oasis
Thursday, June 23rd 2005
From this weekends Observer Music Monthly, David Walliams from Little Britain interviews Noel Gallagher:
"DW: Ricky Gervais told me there's a story that Liam thinks Spinal Tap are a real band. Is that true?
NG: Yeah, he thought they were real people. We went to see them play in Carnegie Hall. Before they played, they came on as three folk singers from the film A Mighty Wind. We were laughing and he said: 'This is shit'. We said: 'No, those three are in Spinal Tap. You do know they are American actors?' 'They're not even a real band?' 'They're not even English! One of them is married to Jamie Lee Curtis.' 'I'm not fuckin' 'avin that,' he says, and walks off right up the middle of Carnegie Hall. He's never watched Spinal Tap since. He'd seen the film and loved it and thought they were a real band.
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DW: The Office is the last truly great thing. That'll take some beating. Do you and Liam go around [imitating the Little Britain characters] going 'I'm a lady!'
NG: Liam hasn't got a sense of humour, fucking full stop. Like with Peter Kay. If you're a northern guy about our age, all the reference points are spot on - you can't not like him. We were on the tour bus one night and somebody put [a] Peter Kay [DVD] on and I thought: 'This is going to be a fucking disaster.' There's a few Mancs in our crew and everyone was laughing their heads off. And Liam's just sat there going: 'He's a fucking fat cunt, fucking shit, fucking fat idiot.' So he gets up to go to the bog and someone goes: 'Why doesn't he like Peter Kay?' Because he'd been to the NME Awards when Liam won a trophy for being hero of the year - and Liam wouldn't go up and fucking collect it. He had on this big white fur coat. So Peter Kay brought his trophy over to him and went 'Ere you are lad'. And as he walks off, he goes: 'Me mam's been looking for that coat.' Fucking uproar! I was laughing like fuck."
Disagree with the fact that's impossible to dislike Peter Kay. His stand up is really lazy simply pushing the audience's nostalgia buttons with nothing interesting to say about the things he reminisces about. The whole Bullseye routine is just rubbish. Phoenix Nights mind you is a brilliant piece of work and I love it dearly but you can forget the standup.
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Roger Manning website
Thursday, June 9th 2005
Roger Manning, keyboard player and songwriter with Jellyfish, Imperial Drag, Beck, Air and TV Eyes amongst many many others has a new website up here
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